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About a year ago, I posted my Aventurer’s Train. While getting ready for an upcoming train show(1), I
realized that Johnny and Pippin had vehicles for land and sea travel, but no air
support.
This called for an addition. And so, the Canary was built.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1507073
Like the original train cars, I tried to go with something that fits the
Adventurer’s theme, and has high playability. The Canary accomodates two
passengers, plus a small amount of storage. The entire plane fits on a single
six-wide flatbed car that matches the other cars in the train.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1507065
The basic problem with carrying a plane on a six-wide flatbed car is the wings.
I solved this problem by placing the wings on hinges.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1507080
The next problem was the height of the wings. I solved this by allowing the
wings to fold in half, thereby decreasing the amount of space needed for
storage.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1507079
As seen in the photos, the exhaust ports also rotate to allow the wings to fold.
Also behind the exhaust ports are two doors that allow access to a small storage
area. When the plane is not in use, Johnny and Pippin can keep their aviator
helmets here.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1507075
This was another fun build. The plane is very shwooshable, and it looks great
with the rest of the train.
The entire Brickshelf album:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=156037
Enjoy!
-Elroy
(1) For anyone in the Wilmington, MA area on December 17th/18th, come on out and
join NELUG at Shriner’s Auditorium.
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| (...) <snip> Way to capture the original style of the adventurers. I love the colapsable wing idea. The body is simple and not overdone, which suits the compactness required of this plane. An A1 job on this one Aaron (19 years ago, 30-Nov-05, to lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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